When Magoo Flew
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"When Magoo Flew" is a 1954 animated short film featuring the near-sighted character Mr. Magoo, notable for winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| When Magoo Flew canonical | 2 |
| When Magoo Flew (Academy Award-winning short) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6135705 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: When Magoo Flew Context triple: [Mr. Magoo, awardFor, When Magoo Flew]
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A.
Magical Menagerie
Magical Menagerie is a wizarding pet shop in the Harry Potter universe that sells a wide variety of magical creatures and animals to witches and wizards.
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B.
The Day the Goose Got Loose
The Day the Goose Got Loose is a humorous children's picture book about barnyard chaos that ensues when a goose escapes, written by Reeve Lindbergh and illustrated by Steven Kellogg.
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C.
The Flying Housewife
The Flying Housewife was the nickname of Dutch sprinter and hurdler Fanny Blankers-Koen, a four-time gold medalist at the 1948 Olympics who became an icon for combining elite athletics with motherhood.
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D.
The Maggie
The Maggie is a 1954 British comedy film about a wily Scottish boat captain, produced by Ealing Studios and noted for its gentle humor and character-driven storytelling.
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E.
Stiltsville
Stiltsville is a historic collection of wooden stilt houses built over the shallow waters of Biscayne Bay near Miami, Florida.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: When Magoo Flew Target entity description: "When Magoo Flew" is a 1954 animated short film featuring the near-sighted character Mr. Magoo, notable for winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.
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A.
Magical Menagerie
Magical Menagerie is a wizarding pet shop in the Harry Potter universe that sells a wide variety of magical creatures and animals to witches and wizards.
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B.
The Day the Goose Got Loose
The Day the Goose Got Loose is a humorous children's picture book about barnyard chaos that ensues when a goose escapes, written by Reeve Lindbergh and illustrated by Steven Kellogg.
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C.
The Flying Housewife
The Flying Housewife was the nickname of Dutch sprinter and hurdler Fanny Blankers-Koen, a four-time gold medalist at the 1948 Olympics who became an icon for combining elite athletics with motherhood.
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D.
The Maggie
The Maggie is a 1954 British comedy film about a wily Scottish boat captain, produced by Ealing Studios and noted for its gentle humor and character-driven storytelling.
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E.
Stiltsville
Stiltsville is a historic collection of wooden stilt houses built over the shallow waters of Biscayne Bay near Miami, Florida.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
American animated film
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animated short film ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacterCreatedBy |
UPA (United Productions of America)
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linked to:
United Productions of America
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| distributedBy | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterTrait | near-sightedness ⓘ |
| genre | animated comedy ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Mr. Magoo ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Mr. Magoo ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | color film ⓘ |
| notableFor |
featuring the near-sighted character Mr. Magoo
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winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Mr. Magoo film series ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
UPA (United Productions of America)
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linked to:
United Productions of America
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| releaseYear | 1954 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: When Magoo Flew Description of subject: "When Magoo Flew" is a 1954 animated short film featuring the near-sighted character Mr. Magoo, notable for winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
United Productions of America
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notableAwardedWork
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When Magoo Flew (Academy Award-winning short)
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linked to: When Magoo Flew